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How to Keep God Out of Your Marriage
What is bickering? How does it get started? Bickering is an open competition between two parties. The goal is to have the last word....
Guide to Prideful Living
C. S. Lewis observed, “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you...
Prepare for the Next Mass Shooting
Twenty one years ago, Karen and I served a 6 week pastoral exchange with the Rev. Peter Good of the Omagh Methodist Church in Northern...
How to Stay Cynical
A cynic is someone who believes that all people are motivated by self-interest. H. L. Menken said, “A cynic is a man who when he smells...
Mistakes Parents make with Technology
I love my cell phone-- it brings such convenience and connection. I do not long for the old days of pay phones, rotary dials and...
Hot dogs and chips!
On a hot Thursday afternoon last February in Rio Bravo, I found myself walking through the streets inviting people to come to church....
I'm the problem
Jesus said, “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven” (Luke...
On the Potawatomi Trail
With Karen off on adventures with her sister in Oklahoma, I strapped 18 pounds of rucksack on my back and struck down the Potawatomi...
Follow no one?
The best part of my week was Sunday when one of our teens, Germane announced that he had done it. He’d read through the entire New...
Whence and Whither
Tom Lynch of Milford is our local poet of world-wide renown. He shared with me a wonderful new collection of his spiritual musings...